By a vote of its current members in 2010, the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) elected 24 race-car drivers and...
Indianapolis 500 fans worldwide have debated for decades about which drivers are the greatest in the race’s glorious history. Now...
Thousands of images dating to the earliest days of Ford Motor Company are being hauled out of the Ford archives and licensed for sale for the first time. FordImages.com features more than 5,000 images for sale including commemorative and limited-edition prints, vintage signs and advertisements. The site launched in January....
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event....
Among the major car collections in the world, there is one that stands out more than any other as synonymous...
By Will Silk With traditional forms of investments seeing troubled times in a global economy that continues to only offer uncertainty, many are looking for something more substantial and forthright to place their money behind and feel confident that they will manage to see a modest return. Similar to the...
Finland’s four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen drove a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible on the hazardous frozen waters of the...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) will honor racing icon Roger Penske at its third annual West Coast banquet prior...
By Will Silk Automodello is producing 85 Griffith Series 200 race replicas in 1:43 scale for this year’s Ultimate Griffith Reunion to be held March 12th and 13th at Bill Warner’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Sports Car Digest previously reviewed Automodello’s 1:43 scale street going Griffith 200 replica, and just when...
The Bentley Drivers Club is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Club’s formation in 2011, a wonderful achievement that will...
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course has been purchased from Dublin, Ohio-based TrueSports, Inc. by Green Savoree Racing Promotions, through newly...
When one thinks “car museum” what generally pops to mind are gorgeous and historically significant vehicles arranged in rows behind velvet ropes—very “Look but don’t touch.” LeMay – AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM represents something of a departure from that traditional formula. Granted, the museum—currently under construction in Tacoma, Washington and scheduled...
Brian Barr has joined Sports Car Digest as Director of Sales and Marketing, where he will grow and manage business...
By Martin Swig Each Spring, the auto journalists in Northern California gather at Mazda’s Laguna Seca Raceway to evaluate an...
By Will Silk It’s not everyday that one comes across a vintage race car in the back of a garage or shop, but veteran F5000 driver Eric Haga has managed just that by finding and procuring six vintage Lola F5000 tubs, as well as several other key parts to go...
By Will Silk With Alfa Romeo celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, Auto Art released a line of Alfa replicas...
By Will Silk The latest Classic Cars for Sale is a 1959 BMW 507 found in the September 1978 issue...
The Revs Institute, a leading automotive research facility in Naples, Florida, announced the acquisition of a major archive by the Collier Collection. The Collier Collection has obtained the Ludvigsen Library, repository of the automotive library of a leading author, researcher, and historian of the motorcar, Karl Ludvigsen. The vast historical...
Daytona is a name that has long been part of the speed racing history as early American-based land speed record...
There is a healthy rivalry brewing between three racing adversaries — a Canadian/American team, an Australian team, and the current...
By Martin Swig In the years just before and after World War II, a Cadillac was one of the best performance cars on the market. By 1950, they were so good that a very lightly modified stock Cadillac finished in 10th place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, humbling...
By Will Silk The Schuco Rennsport-Legenden Auto Union Type C Stromlinienwagen (Stream-line car) is a leap back to the way...
Discovery Communications announced plans to rename its HD Theater cable network to Velocity, effective fourth quarter 2011. The all-HD network...
Story by Stephen Mitchell I spent a lot of time in a showroom at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and 26th Street in Santa Monica. It belonged to Otto Zipper and featured Ferraris that held me spellbound for hours at a time. On the occasion of my first visit, there...
In front of a capacity crowd of 400 guests at the RRDC Evening with Roger Penske presented by Firestone in...
Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, announced that the Museum Foundation received a...
For the first time since August 2009, we have updated the look and feel of Sports Car Digest. Readers will benefit from larger pictures, better image captioning, a more interactive comment platform (see below) and easier navigation throughout the site. The biggest changes are under the hood as we moved...
LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) announced that the Tacoma, Washington project will have its grand opening on May 19,...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is not only been a leading manufacturer of sports cars for more than...
Filmmaker and Sports Car Digest contributor Stephen Mitchell, along with Jeanetta Dumouchel of InterFUND and Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg Auto Archives, introduced their documentary on the Carrera Panamericana road races which ran in Mexico from 1950-54 during the Cannes Film Festival, held May 11-22, 2011. The documentary titled Carrera...
